Cord-fastening seal.



0. D. BELL.

CORD FASTENING SEAL.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24, I913.

Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

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OTIS D. BELL, OF YORK, N. Y.

CORD-FASTENING- SEAL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

Application filed February 24, 1913. Serial No. 750,246.

To all whom it may concern: I I Be it known that I, OTIS D. BELL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Cord-Fastening Seal, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. 4

The invention is intended more particularly to provide means for fastening identification tags on clothing. It frequently happens when a garment is sent out for approval to a prospective purchaser, that the latter removes the tag, wears the garment, and replaces the tag and returns the garment. W

My improved seal provides means whereby the tag cannot be removed from the garment without detection.

The invention is also capable of embodiment generally in tag-cord fasteners or seals, and in seals designed for use in securing. packages or other articles to prevent the same from being untied or otherwise tam- It is necessary for commercial purposes that a device of the indicated character be produced very cheaply, a condition that my invention fulfils, in that it involves a minimum number of operations to produce it in sheet metal. Functionally the device involves distinct merit in so clamping the cord that it is practically impossible for any one to loosen the clamping members to remove the cord without the fact of the removal being apparent. Furthermore, my improved seal may be snapped into a closed and locked position by pressure of the fingers, without requiring a hand press or the like.

The invention will be more particularly explained in the specific description herein after to be given.

Reference is to be had to the accompany.-

cation, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a face view of the tag, with the elements of the seal disposed in the posi-.- tions they occupy before being clamped to the tag cord, the view showing a portion of a tag and a garment; Fig. 2 is a view showing the seal inclamped positionon the cord,'.' the form of tag being diflerent from that shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal Section on the line 33 of Fig. 1;Fig. 4 is a cross section with the elements of the seal in locked position; Fig. 5 is a cross section at right angles to Fig. 4, on the line 5-5; and Fig. dis a view similar to Fig. 5, showing a-slight modification.

In Fig. 1 a portion of the tag is indicated by the letter A, a part of a garment by the letter B, and a buttonhole in the garment is indicated by the letter 6. To clamp the tag cord 0, I disks 10, 11, of unequal diameter, and joined by a short narrow strip 12. The strip is curved longitudinally, as best shown in Fig. (D3, to present a concave surface at the face between the points 13 of which the strip joins the opposed edge portions of the disks. The strip extends in line with the diameter of the disk-and forms a seat for the cord C, .so that the cord will lie on a line approximately tangential to the disks. The larger disk 11 is formed with an edge flange 15 that rises perpendicularly on the disk and extends around the latter to points-immediately adjacent to the strip 12. The free edge of the perpendicular flange 15 is inturned, as at 16, so that it is disposed at an inner angle and forms a socket fastener member. The disk 10, which preferably is concavo-convex, has an edge flange 14 disposed at an angle to the plane of the disk and adapted to be'sprung into and against the socket flange 15 when the bendable strip 12 is doubled on itself to bring the disks against each other face to face. 14 extends .around the disk to points immediately adjacent to the sides of the strip 12 so that between the terminal ends 17, 18, of the flanges on the disk, there is a passage way in line with the strip.

When the disks are brought together, and the strip 12- doubled on itself, as shown in Fig. 4, it will be seen that the cord C is tightly clamped close against the edges of the disks, the return-bent portion of the strip being received between the opposed terminals 18 of the larger disk, and in close relation to the said terminals. Thus there is no room for the entrance of a tool to separate the doubled strip parts, and the. removal of the cord is practically impossible without detection.

In the form shown in Fig 6, the parts are i the face of' The flange the same in all respects asdescri'bed in connection with the other figures, except that the .flange 14 of the disk 1O flares outwardly. The tag may be a substantially recat 0. The cord is laid transversely to the strip 12 on the curved 'seat presented by the they will so engage face of said strip, and the disk 10 brought over and down upon the disk 11, the concavo-convex form of the disk 10 affording a projecting surface against which the pressure is applied, to spring the flange 14: into the socket flange 15.

In Fig. 2 a round tag A is employed,both

strands of the cord being passed through the eye a, the two strands of the cord being passed through the buttonhole b of the garment B, and the double thicknesses of the ord being then returned on themselves and aid in the curved side of the strip-12, so that four thicknesses of the cord will be clamped by the doubled strip. The knotted ends of the tie cord of a package maysimilarly be fastened. Y The mating flanges are adapted to be readily snapped and sprung into engagement'and locked position'b'y a gentle pressure of the fingers; thus the use of a hand press or other tool the cord is obviated. v

An important feature of my invention is the constructionof the two sections in such manner that when they are snapped together as to avoid any retrograde movement, and thus obviate any slip- 7v ripheral flange to lock the fastener on.

' two subscribing witnesses.

ping ofthe cordsthrough the connecting part 12. In. securing this result it is manifest that one of the sections has a lip which engages directly over and upon the inner section at the instant the sections are closed fully together and this prevents any outward or retrograde movement of the sections when once snapped together.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A cord fastening seal consisting of twodisk sections and a portion connectlng the .same and serving in operation to clamp a cord, the said sections snapping one within the other, the inner section having a pethe inner'surface of the outer section when thesections are snapped together,

section having aperipheral flange provided the edge of which engages the outer' z with an inwardly extending lip, the edge ofwhich engages directly upon the outer surface of the inner section at the instant when the sectionsare closed together, whereby to prevent any. outward or retrograde movement of the sections when once snapped together.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to thisv specification in the presence of o'ris. n. BELL. Witnesses} ARTHUR SPENCER,

JAS. J. 'MCMAHON. 

